Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-03-01
NEWS OLE TIEE DAY.

Shoemaking has been stopped in the
Maryland penitentiary
The decrease of the public debt during
February was about $4,000 900.
On Sunday night the mercury fell below
30 degrees in South Carolina aud it is
feared that the fruit crop has been de-
stroyed.
Burglars broke into the bank at La
Grange, Mo-, Sunday night blew open the
safe and stole all the valuables, amounting
to $21, 900.
Powderly has been denounced by the
Central Labor Union of New York city as
incompert for his place, because he refuses
to allow his order to intercede for the Chi
cago anarchists.
The panic-stricken people who fled from
their homes in the earthquake stricken dis
tricts of France and Italy are returning.
The damage to property at Mentone is
about 100000. The total number OF lives
lost by the earthquake is now placed at 6O0.
Elk Congressman English, who was arrest
ed in New York last Saturday on suit for
breach of promise, on complaint OF a widow,
and was thus prevented from sailing On the
Etruria, is reported to have caught the
steamer down the bay afterward by the aid
of tug
1t is stated that under the terms of the re-
newed treaty between Austria, Italy and
Germany Italy agrees TO place 90 600 troops
at the disposal of Austria in the event OF
war with Russia and to place the same num-
Der at the disposal of Germany in the event
of war with France.
In the Senate yesterday bills were passed
to increase the endowment of the Louisiana
State University and Agricultural College (;
the pleuro pneumonia bill to prevent the
employment of alien or convict labor upon
public buildings and public works, and the
labor arbitration bill, which had already
passed the House.
Gov. Wilson, of West Virginia, has ten
dered the United States Senatorship to
Daniel 3. Lucas, of Jefferson county, who
was one of the twelve democratic "kickers"
in the recent Senatorial contest in the Leg
islature of that State Mr.. Lucas has &C.
cepted the tender, aud will receive his ere.
dentials shortly after the 4th OF March next.
Owing to the death OF. Cardinal Jacobini,
the public consistory, at Rome, at which
Cardinals Gibbons, Taschereau and MaZella
are to be hated, has again been postponed,
this time until the end Of March. The
Pope has not yet announced the exact date
| of the meeting, but it is expected that he
will 90 so Immediately after the funeral of
Cardinal Jacobni.
A dispatch from Strasburg announces that
the government has issued an order for the
dissolution of the union Of Aisatian choral
societies, it being suspected that the union
has assisted the objects of the French
League of Patriots. 1t is further reported
that the laws dealing with societies will be
vigorously enforced that the measure for
bidding French military men to stay in AL
SAGE except on special permit will be ap-
! piled to civilians, and that societies whose
rules forbid the admission OF Germans to
membership, or societies which, as matter
of common knowledge, exclude Germans
will be dissolved.
The certificate of incorporation OF the
New York and Southern Telegraph Com
pany, filed in New York yesterday, states
that its capital is S1,000,000 divided into
shares of $500 each, with the PRIVILEGE of
increasing its stock to S, 900. The cor
porators and number of shares held by each
are as follows James B. Pace, Richmond,
Va, $500 shares John S. Wise, Richmond,
Va, 1000; Thomas NJ. Logan, Richmond,
Va. 1000; John g. Moore, New York,
4 900, and ]. Weaver, Page, New York, 500.
The company's wires are to run from New
York to Philadelphia, Baltimore, Wash
ington, Richmond, Charleston, Savannah
and New Orleans, and to all intermediate
points.